The Next 5 Games for the Lakers, Blazers, Jazz & Wolves

Next 5 game schedule may decide if we are going to go playoffs. We are at a point right now other teams' results are directly important to us. Wolves' won't have Love for another 8 weeks or so. That's good news for Lakers side since they are sitting at .500 record. Jazz and Blazers are also heading into tough matchups.

If we can go 4-1, losing either Thunder or Heat game, we will have 19-21 record and let's say we'll also win the Jazz game with that momentum, it'd put us just one game behind .500 . Blazers could lose 4 games in their next 5 games, and that would place them at 20-19 record. Jazz have somewhat easier schedule than other two. But I'll say they may lose 4 of next 6 including our game, which would make them 21-22. And Wolves could very well lose their next 5 games.

So, as you see winning in short term could fix some psychological issues with help from other teams. Of course, we do need to break the 5-game losing streak first but I'm hopeful. At the end of that short term schedule we might look at such a view on standings heading into second half of the season which is not bad at all considering our situation.